Yuanyue Dang

3 weeks ago | scmp.com | Liu Zhen |Seong Hyeon Choi |Yuanyue Dang

Ukrainian attacks targeting airbases deep inside Russian territory despite lacking long-range missiles or bombers could offer important lessons about modern warfare in the event of any conflict in the Taiwan Strait. Under the operation, code-named Spider’s Web, Ukraine smuggled drones into Russian territory undetected and hired unwitting drivers to transport them in modified containers to locations near airbases, some of them thousands of kilometres from Ukraine’s border.

3 weeks ago | scmp.com | Yuanyue Dang |Mark Magnier

Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by phone with his US counterpart, Donald Trump, on Thursday, Chinese state media reported. The call came after Washington and Beijing traded accusations of breaching a deal reached just weeks ago in Geneva, where the world’s two biggest economies had agreed to dramatically cut mutual tariffs for 90 days, an outcome Trump dubbed a “total reset”. It was their first phone call since the two countries started imposing fresh duties on each other’s goods in February.

2 months ago | scmp.com | Yuanyue Dang |William Zheng

China’s political system – where state power and social control are dominated by the ruling Communist Party – could give Beijing an edge in a new trade war with the United States compared with other countries, experts and insiders have said. But they warned that Chinese companies and local governments may lack the creativity to respond to a tariff war, as they rely on directives from the powerful central government.

2 months ago | scmp.com | Yuanyue Dang |Jun Mai

Hu Dehua, son of the former Chinese leader Hu Yaobang, has died at the age of 76. He died on Sunday in Beijing due to a heart attack, sources told the South China Morning Post. Hu was a liberal businessman who repeatedly spoke out for political reform and press freedom in China – rare among the descendants of the Communist Party’s early top officials, a group known as “princelings”. In 2016, he became vice-director of the outspoken magazine Yanhuang Chunqiu.

Mar 30, 2025 | scmp.com | Phoebe Zhang |Yuanyue Dang

Over the years, influencer Sima Nan rose to fame waging campaigns against enemies of the state. He began to gather atten in the 1990s, appearing on national television to attack qigong masters including Falun Gong, a spiritual group Beijing later outlawed as an “evil cult”.